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Healing of the Blind Man by Jesus Christ by Carl Bloch. According to the Gospel of John 9:1–12, [1] Jesus saw a man who had been blind since birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
In chapter 9, the "progressive insight" of the man born blind is a central motif in the narrative. [3] The messianic significance of the story is noted in the New English Translation. [5] The progress of the narrative can be seen in the sub-headings used by the New King James Version: John 9:1–12 = A Man Born Blind Receives Sight
Healing the man blind from birth in John 9:1–7; The raising of Lazarus in John 11:1–45; The seven signs are seen by some scholars and theologians as evidence of new creation theology in the Gospel of John, the resurrection of Jesus being the implied eighth sign, indicating a week of creation and then a new creation beginning with the ...
Celidonius is the traditional name ascribed to the man born blind whom Jesus healed in the Gospel of John 9:1–38. This tradition is attested in both Eastern Christianity and in Catholicism. One tradition ascribes to St. Celidonius the founding of the Christian church at Nîmes in Gaul (present-day France).
In John 8:12 Jesus applies the title to himself while debating with the Jews and states: [1] I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Jesus again claims to be Light of the World in John 9:5, during the miracle of healing the blind at birth, saying: [2]
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The later narrative in the Gospel of John about Jesus washing Simon Peter's feet at the Last Supper, [6] similarly uses the Greek term λούειν, louein, [7] which is the word typically used of washing in an Asclepeion, [4] rather than the more ordinary Greek word νίπτειν, niptein, used elsewhere in the Johannine text to describe ...
In the film, Nicodemus visits Jesus in the late afternoon, not at night as in John 3:3. The Apostle Andrew introduces Simon to Jesus as "My brother, Simon Peter." But "Peter" is the name that Jesus later gave to Simon (John 1:42, Matthew 16:18) after he was well acquainted with him, not his original given name. Later in the drama, Jesus does ...